Pareto principle, the 80/20 rule
states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes.... It is an adage of business management that "80% of sales come from 20% of clients" --wikipedia
Science
Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns (video)
Lex Fridman Podcast, video included. It's over two hours long, so use the chapter information.
gain of function (GoF) virus research
studies with the potential to enhance the pathogenicity or transmissibility of potential pandemic pathogens (PPPs) --National Institutes of Health
The Illusion of Truth (video)
Study-based conclusions about how we discern truth, with "cognitive ease" being a major factor. Video from Veritasium embedded.
COVID-19: Amplification of Public Health Consequences by Media Exposure
In the past, "media coverage of events had unintended consequences for those at relatively low risk for direct exposure, leading to potentially severe public health repercussions" --American Psychological Association
computer virus
"a piece of code which is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data" -- Google dictionary
Is there a COVID cult?
Some places are more cult than others...
China's artificial intelligence "prosecutor"
Researchers “trained” the machine between 2015 and 2020 using over 17,000 cases. It can now charge a suspect based on 1,000 “traits” gathered from a human-documented description of a case. At present, the machine can charge eight of the most common crimes in Shanghai --yahoo.com
Great Barrington Declaration
"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection."
popular science
an interpretation of science intended for a general audience --wikipedia.com
fine-tuned universe (concept)
suggests that the occurrence of life in the universe is very sensitive to the values of certain fundamental physical constants and that the observed values are, for some reason, improbable. -wikipedia
Roger Penrose
British mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics.
Dr. Chris Whitty (Chief Medical Officer for England)
His position on Covid, by request.
Katherine Johnson
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor. Her story became the movie Hidden Figures. She lived to be 101 years old. --wikipedia
Jungian cognitive functions (theory)
Jung noted four main psychological functions: thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition. He introduced them with having either an internally focused (introverted) or externally focused (extraverted) tendency which he called "attitudes". --wikipedia